beginner: text region polyline point from MapInfo

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi Julien,

ESRI shapes are only for points, lines and polygons (regions).
Universal translator converts MapInfo texts to line elements and the
text string to an attribute. So you can display them as an annotation type 
layer.

So change your layer something like this

 LAYER
 DEBUG OFF
   NAME "text"
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS OFF
   TILEINDEX "priamo_text.shp"
   TILEITEM "location"
   LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   CLASS
     NAME "region"
     LABEL
       SIZE ?
       TYPE TRUETYPE
       FONT ???
       COLOR ? ? ?
       ANGLE "TEXT_ANGLE"
     END
   END
 END

You must use truetype font to rotate text.

Zoltan

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Julien Buratto wrote:

> Rahkonen Jukka ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Correct.  While MapInfo tab is database-like format and can contain everything you may have in MapInfo in a single file, ESRI shapefiles can only have one kind of features in one shapefile set.
> >  
> > -Jukka-
> 
> Great, so I'm getting it :-D
> Next question is, what "type" should I use to draw texts ?
> My layer containing text is:
> 
> LAYER
> DEBUG OFF
>   NAME "text"
>   TYPE point
>   STATUS OFF
>   TILEINDEX "priamo_text.shp"
>   TILEITEM "location"
>   CLASS
>     NAME "region"
>     STYLE
> #      OUTLINECOLOR 120 120 120
>       COLOR 0 0 0
> 
>     END
>   END
> END # layer
> 
> the MAP header is:
> 
> MAP
> NAME DEMO
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> SIZE 530 530
> Extent 2285117.310158 4727319.440000 2431485.920000 4871301.690000
> FONTSET ../etc/fonts.txt
> 
> Thanks again
>